[crossfire] Quests, continued

[Nicolas Weeger]

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        Yes, and if the player is part of a party, and other party
     
     members are on teh 
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      same quest, this should count for them also.
     
     
Yes, party should be handled for every quest aspect.

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        Can you be more specifc on this?  Does this meaning having
     
     n items in your inventory? <snip>

Imagine a quest like "cook NPC: I'm missing 10 potatoes for my
party tonight, please help me!" => player has the quest
"collect 10 potatoes". When s-he gets 10 potatoes, it could be
nice to put a reminder "oh, you found 10 potatoes, you can
give'em to the poor cook". So need to activate quests items
when player picks the last of 10 items.

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      This can be remedied to some extent by being very specific 
     
     >
     
      where to go (go to town hall help desk, etc).
     
     
Yep.

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        Doe this mean you can only get the item if you are on the
     
     quest, or does it mean it only counts for something if you are
doing the quest?  If the later, 
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      that would seem pretty obvious.  This would presumably be
     
     basically tied to pickup item.

I was thinking "when player opens the chest, if doing the
quest, find the right item and other random items. If not
doing the quest, just the random items".

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        I'd add:
     
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      Converse with someone.  Eg, a quest to go tell xyz abc. 
     
     This could be done as 
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      above - tied to connected objects, so could be tied to a 
     
     magic ear.

Already done. I extended the match function, you can do
(imagine a NPC farmer, after the cook asked you to find 10
potatoes):
match @potatoe
quest potatoe_quest start
You're seeking potatoes? If you  help me find my missing cow,
I'll give you some".

=> text only appears when player is doing the quest.

In my implementation, though, it's not flexible enough imo -
can't match multiple quests states easily, and so on.

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      1) Give object.  Some quests (scorn nobility) quest does
     
     this, but can 
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      potentially run out of objects - if done via quests, don't
     
     have that problem.

Can generate random item, too - simple to do with plugin or
whatever.

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        Also, should have special code to give invisible objects -
     
     if player doesn't 
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      have it, it gives them.  Thus, quests could give out skills
     
     and spells. 
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      Potentially, there should be some fallback (player already
     
     has meteor swarm, 
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      give them 10 potions instead or something).
     
     
Can be done through plugin, again. Code to check for all that
exists iirc.

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      2) Ability to give exp, and give it into specific skill
     
     categories (bring me an 
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      elven bow and I'll teach you more about bowmaking, etc).
     
     
Plugin, again.

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      3) Ability to give stat/other bonus, up to racial maximums
     
     (just like potion). 
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      Resistances could be for everyone or maybe just dragons. 
     
     Perhaps have some 
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      constraint (only increase resistance if less than 20 or
     
     something).

Resistances not yet in plugin, but could be added anyway.
Stats you can already, I think.

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        Also, from the current quests, I'd say that if the quest
     
     is timed but you 
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      don't complete it in time, you should generally be able to
     
     restart it.  Ideally, 
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      few quests should be timed, but my concern here is that a
     
     player perhaps get 
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      distracted, quests expire, and not player has not chance to
     
     redo it.

*nod*
That's why using forces for quests make sense, you can redo
quests if you timeout.


Ryo


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